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NZPA Paris The French sports weekly "1/Equlpe”. has named the United States Olympic skating gold medallist Eric Heiden- as its international ..Sportsman of the year, '. a.;-- ; s “DEquipe” said that by wmningnpll, five speed skating gold medals from 500 to .10,000 metres at the Lake Placid winter games, Heiden .had achieved,-an unparal'’’He “combined speed/: resistance ' dnd ;enduraiiCe in ‘a Way that, will riot . easily be matched, it said. ' .. < ' TheJ.Sw.edish Wimbledon tennis champion, Bjorn Borg, was - run-ner-up for the second successive; year;-''and the ■ British runner’ ! Steve Ovett, world 1500 metres :record-holder, was.third.
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